A Bridge to Bio-Link's Future

通往 Bio-Link 未来的桥梁

• 批准号: 1764225
• 负责人: Sandra Porter
• 金额: $ 35.18万
• 依托单位: Digital World Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1764225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridge; Bio; Link; Future

Employment in the biotechnology industry offers good benefits, job satisfaction, and opportunities for advancement. Despite these advantages, the lack of knowledge on the part of students and teachers concerning biotech careers has made it difficult to recruit students to enroll in biotech education programs. This project will add features and services to the website, Biotech-Careers.org, which currently serves to inform students about the types of job opportunities in biotech, to identify where biotechnology students have been hired, and to help biotech education programs learn what companies are doing in their local areas. The site contains descriptions of careers in biotech companies, stories and photos from graduates of two-year programs, and a database of biotech-related employers tagged by their business area. Additions to the site will enable it to improve student awareness of the different types of job opportunities in biotechnology and help them learn where they can find college programs that can prepare them for these different types of biotech careers. To complement these services, the project team will also identify and recruit faculty who are committed to being part of a distributed national leadership council to promote improvements in biotechnology education. The project will pursue two primary objectives. First, the project team will introduce capabilities to Biotech-Careers.org that help improve students? knowledge of opportunities in biotech and ability to find employment. Second, the principal investigators will improve and sustain the digital infrastructure connecting the biotech-education online community. Through these efforts, students will be provided with new tools for identifying and planning their career objectives and locating educational programs that can prepare them for biotech careers. These resources will include better descriptions of career pathways, better links to community college biotech programs, more information about where students are getting hired, and new tools designed to help students overcome barriers when applying for jobs. The directory and database of community college and high school biotech programs at a companion site, Bio-Link.org, will also be improved and will continue to serve as a tool for assessing biotech education on a national level. The broader impacts of this project will be to increase the number and diversity of appropriately educated students entering biotechnology and bioscience careers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

生物技术行业的就业提供了良好的福利，工作满意度和晋升机会。尽管有这些优势，但由于学生和教师对生物技术职业缺乏了解，很难招募学生参加生物技术教育课程。该项目将为网站Biotech-Careers.org增加功能和服务，该网站目前向学生提供有关生物技术工作机会类型的信息，确定生物技术学生被雇用的地点，并帮助生物技术教育计划了解公司在当地的情况。该网站包含生物技术公司的职业描述、两年制项目毕业生的故事和照片，以及一个按业务领域标记的生物技术相关雇主数据库。该网站的增加将使其能够提高学生对生物技术领域不同类型工作机会的认识，并帮助他们了解在哪里可以找到可以为这些不同类型的生物技术职业做好准备的大学课程。为了补充这些服务，项目小组还将确定和招聘致力于成为分布式国家领导理事会的一部分，以促进生物技术教育的改进的教师。该项目将追求两个主要目标。首先，项目团队将向Biotech-Careers.org介绍有助于提高学生的能力？了解生物技术领域的机会，并有能力找到工作。其次，主要研究者将改善和维持连接生物技术教育在线社区的数字基础设施。通过这些努力，学生将获得新的工具，用于确定和规划他们的职业目标，并定位可以为生物技术职业做好准备的教育计划。这些资源将包括更好地描述职业道路，更好地链接到社区学院生物技术课程，更多关于学生在哪里被雇用的信息，以及旨在帮助学生克服求职障碍的新工具。社区大学和高中生物技术课程的目录和数据库在一个配套网站Bio-Link.org上也将得到改进，并将继续作为评估国家一级生物技术教育的工具。该项目的更广泛影响将是增加进入生物技术和生物科学职业的适当教育的学生的数量和多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Biotech-Careers.org: A Resource for Building Career Awareness in Biotechnology

Biotech-Careers.org：建立生物技术职业意识的资源

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of advanced technological education
• 作者: Porter, Sandra;Leung, Karen;Smith, Todd
• 通讯作者: Smith, Todd